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  Where Is BLONDIE?

  by minimus in

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  i might have missed this but blondie was always one of the best posters here.

  her analysis and commentary was spot on.. is everything ok with her?

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  skin

  Good question, I have been wondering the same. Let's hope all is well.
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  New WT Hisotry channel on You Tube

  by Fr.RAS in

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  2. beliefs

  for those interested in wt history you need to look at the relatively new channel over at youtube called wt-history.

  stuff i have never heard of before focusing on russell and rutherford with excellent documentation.

  theses two guys, jeff and paul who know this history better than anyone i have ever read with original documents, go through the history very professionally and with high accuracy.

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  skin

  "This video is unavailable"
  

  Same?? Would have been interesting. So we can't thank you just yet fr.ras.
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  Just wanting confirmation on an unofficial JW experience

  by joe134cd in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  just wondering if anyone can confirm or deny this unofficial jw experience that my father received by email.

  i’ve told him that it against wt rules to forward unofficial accounts.

  but of course he just puts that down to apostate driven lies.

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  skin

  emphatically stated they don’t want the congregations to pay for these services.
  

  https://jworg.zoom.us
  

  thats because JWHQ now use a vanity url to connect to zoom meetings.

  https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/215062646-Guidelines-for-Vanity-URL-Requests?mobile_site=true
  
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  "The Best Convention Ever" - 2020 starts today

  by bats in the belfry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  dress up for the show.

  ... and now please be seated.

  proudly presenting your 2020 convention program.. ... and, thank god, for the ff button on my player.

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  skin

  "I wonder how the attendants are going to do the count,"
  

  Number watching gets txted to the group overseer.
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  Food Distribution from the GB/Org???

  by JWTom in

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  2. friends

  heard from a close relationship that their congregation is handing out food to some and the message is that it is from the gb.

  this person is elderly but is not needy in any way and is very active/respected in the local cong.

  they would also never embellish or say something like this unless it was the actual message.

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  skin

  Have you read this recent post:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5714743137402880/food-boxes-given-out-society
  
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  Why do Jehovah's Witnesses avoid examining their own religion? An interesting read from Scientific American Magazine.

  by Balaamsass2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  for a long time, i thought pimi (physically in, mentally in) jws were unique in their inability to simply type and read the latest "google" news results about "jehovah's witnesses " or "watchtower".

  however, it appears it is not uncommon for a large portion of the population purposefully to avoid facts...on purpose!

  "why do people avoid facts that could help them?.

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  skin

  There was a WT quote about 10 years ago that went along the lines of "we (rank & file JWs) dont need to examine the scripture, thankfully the GB have done that for us".
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  Television segment on JWs and the Australian Redress Scheme

  by Listener in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  tonight there was an 8 minute segment allocated to reporting on jws regarding child abuse and the redress scheme.

  it was presented by lisa wilkinson for the project.the australian branch has issued a statement to the show advising that they will not be joining the scheme.. they state:.

  statement from the jehovah’s witnessesthe religion of jehovah’s witnesses does not have the institutional settings that the voluntary national redress scheme is designed to cover.therefore, the ministry for families and social services has been advised that jehovah’s witnesses will not join the scheme.jehovah’s witnesses have responded and will continue to respond directly to individual claims for redress in a caring, fair, and principled manner, taking into consideration the unique circumstances of each claim.. https://10play.com.au/theproject/articles/statement-from-the-jehovahs-witnesses/tpa200621ycelq.

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  They are finished in Oz

  No, very unlikely. This media attention only reinforces in the minds of JWs that their WT teaching is true, that the governments will turn of true religion, an event JWs have been warned about from their leaders for some time now, an event that supports the idea that the end is very very near. Since the GB's warning are coming true in this instance, JWs are continually told to remain loyal to the organization and not allow the lies of Satan's media to cause them to miss out on everlasting life. How sad that would be.
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  A question about the contemporary generation teaching following a conversation with a JW apologist

  by Giles Gray in

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  2. beliefs

  i would like to ask the ex-jws on this site to put their ‘apologists hat’ back on for a moment, so that i can go through the overlapping generation teaching in an attempt to make sense of it.

  i apologise if these points have already been addressed on this site.a quick background for the reason for my request… having never confronted a jw apologist on the topic, i recently engaged with a jw regarding the official understanding of a ‘generation’ and unfortunately he didn’t have an answer to the points i was making.

  i was left a little confused as to what the official jw response would/should be.so i was hoping that my thoughts below might be considered from an apologist’s perspective.the point in question relates to this section of the watchtower article below from 2008, as well as the jw.org video explanation of the overlapping generation:---:w08 2/15[box on page 25] can we calculate the length of “this generation”?the word “generation” usually refers to people of various ages whose lives overlap during a particular time period or event.

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  I like the way you have related the modern day WT generations to those found in Matt chap 1. That clearly shows the nonsense idea of an overlapping generation.

  Unfortunately with JWs, whatever the GB say over rides scripture. It is a very serious sin if a JW were to openly admit that something the GB says does not make sense. You must defend that belief with your life until the GB get new light, once this overlapping generation timeframe runs out. Then the new teaching will be so clear and obvious. But not until Tony's earthly course ends.
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  4 Letters Arrived--English and Spanish! (as of 2020-06-19)

  by Atlantis in

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  2. friends

  1.--2020-06-18-- english--instructions for our online meetings.. distractions.

  noisepreparations.

  personal appearance .

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  skin

  Yes, please.

  Thanks
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  Gerrit Loesch video from this week's meeting

  by neat blue dog in

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  2. beliefs

  he talks about how a group of 5,000 broke away from the organization due to distrust of government agents infiltrating the jws.

  they weren't regarded as apostates, just distrustful.

  he uses phrases like "their leader" and "his elders", and how they had a meeting with the governing body and made the decision for all these thousands to reintegrate them into the jws, splitting them up among congregations.

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  skin

  https://www.jw.org/finder?srcid=share&prefer=content&applanguage=E&locale=en&item=pub-jwb_201901_6_VIDEO&docid=1011214